New monument honors fateful ’50s rock ‘n roll tour

Kenosha was the second quit on the tour, but the 11th prevent of the tour is remembered the most. The singers played the Surf Ballroom in Very clear Lake, Iowa Feb. 2 and later that evening in the wee several hours of the upcoming morning Holly, Valens and The Huge Bopper (J.P. Richardson) died in a airplane crash. 

“We knew it occurred there, but there is certainly practically nothing else in Kenosha that tells you it happened,” Guida Brown reported. She and her partner, David McGrath, spearheaded the force for the monument. “We stated we need to have to have a marker right here.”

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Brown also defined the monument’s considerable style.

“The snowflake is for the Winter Dance Celebration, the guitar is for Ritchie Valens, there is certainly Buddy’s iconic glasses and at the top we have the telephone for The Major Bopper,” she reported.

The telephone is a salute to The Major Bopper’s signature music, “Chantilly Lace.” 

Brown said she and McGrath endorse and market things for Dion DiMucci, the Belmonts previous direct singer and solo artist who went by his to start with name. Brown pointed out “The Wanderer” and “Runaround Sue” singer turns 83 up coming month and is about to head out on tour soon after releasing a new album.